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Ironweed

(1983)
(The third book in the Albany Cycle series)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book (nominee)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book
In 1938, Francis Phelan, a murderer, is reduced to flop houses and hobo jungles and returns to a depressed Albany, where--as a gravedigger--he shuffles his rag tag way to survival.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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